The Seafood Shack, a popular Mathews seafood restaurant and market established in 2022 by Robert Martin and Amy Blanock Hudgins, is now under new ownership. Gwynn’s Island residents Kevin and Amy Fuccella, operating under the name Mermaid Cove Enterprises, took over the business on March 1 and are seamlessly carrying on its day-to-day operations. The Fuccellas had been regulars at the restaurant, with Amy’s two daughters both working there, and they liked the food and the atmosphere. When Martin and Hudgins approached them last summer about the possibility of a changeover, they were intrigued, but they both had other jobs and needed to take some time to consider it. After retiring from the U.S. Air Force a number of years ago, Kevin had since been working for his brother’s Auto Spa business, while Amy’s background is in flooring sales. Kevin grew up in the restaurant business in Urbanna, where his mother once owned the Urbanna Inn, and his three sisters all went into the restaurant bus...